Waitangi Day

Blimey it's windy today! Driving like a stuntman, we headed down the West coastal road heading towards the Kauri Museum (recommended to us by a middle aged lady who parked near us at the native forest). Now, far be it for me to sound ageist but when we arrived the place was TEEMING with grey hair. I kid you not, they must have had their own Emergency Room in case any of the 'olds' got too excited at the thought of a massive tree museum. After we flipped a coin to decide whether or not to go in and the coin deciding we should, we decided not to. Cheats.

Another recommendation led us down to Pakiri. Big up the Frank and Kerri massive!

Off we set, on what seemed like two wheels in the wind to Pakiri beach for some horse riding on the beach. It was shut. Waitangi Day is a public holiday that celebrates the signing of a treaty between the Mauris and the British Crown and is one of the only days in the year that this place closes. Great. We headed to the beach anyway and it was fantastic! The wind blowing in from the sea was so strong, you could lean into it.

We then headed down to a really nice place called Orewa and stayed the night on a camp site that is on the beach (we even got a beach-front pitch). Cool!